Definition of reasons

"reasons" in the noun sense

1. reason, ground

a rational motive for a belief or action

"the reason that war was declared"

"the grounds for their declaration"

2. reason

an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon

"the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly"

3. reason, understanding, intellect

the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

"we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"

4. rationality, reason, reasonableness

the state of having good sense and sound judgment

"his rationality may have been impaired"

"he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions"

5. cause, reason, grounds

a justification for something existing or happening

"he had no cause to complain"

"they had good reason to rejoice"

6. reason

a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion

"there is reason to believe he is lying"

"reasons" in the verb sense

1. reason, reason out, conclude

decide by reasoning draw or come to a conclusion

"We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house"

2. argue, reason

present reasons and arguments

3. reason

think logically

"The children must learn to reason"

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Quotations for reasons

Love reasons without reason. [ Shakespeare ]

Poor men's reasons are not heard. [ Proverb ]

The reasons of the poor weigh not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that complies against his will.
Is of his own opinion still.
Which he may adhere to, yet disown,
For reasons to himself best known. [ Butler ]

Strong reasons make strong actions. [ Shakespeare ]

Who reasons wisely, is not therefore wise,
His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. [ Pope ]

Good reasons must of force give place to better. [ Jul. Caes ]

I am bound to find you in reasons, but not in brains. [ Johnson ]

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. [ Bossuet ]

It is easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient. [ George Eliot ]

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him. [ Shenstone ]

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd. [ Charlotte Bronte ]

How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons. [ Metastasio ]

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride, of strong sense and feeble reasons, of good eating and ill living. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. [ William Shakespeare ]

We are ordinarily more easily satisfied with reasons that we have discovered ourselves, than by those which have occurred to others. [ Pascal ]

Love never reasons, but profusely gives--gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little. [ Hannah More ]

No lover should have the insolence to think of being accepted at once, nor should any girl have the cruelty to refuse at once, without severe reasons. [ John Ruskin ]

His reasons are two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search. [ William Shakespeare ]

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. [ Steele ]

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons, which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons, which are strong. [ Colton ]

Commonsense is science exactly so far as it fulfils the ideal of commonsense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. [ Huxley ]

To make much of little, to find reasons of interest in common things, to develop a sensibility to mild enjoyments, to inspire the imagination, to throw a charm upon homely and familiar things, will constitute a man master of his own happiness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment: it imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all. [ Whipple ]

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. [ Pascal ]

reasons in Scrabble®

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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reasons in Words With Friends™

The word reasons is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters reasons:

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